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Entry: What is Paleoconservatism? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_is_paleoconservatism#27782 Post contents: This is a great defination of "paleo-conservativism"...I agree with almost all of it. The only difference I have with it is the embrace of "laissez faire" free market utopianism, and the whole fraud of "free trade", which is more about looting America's economic sovereignty and selling it to global corporate monopolies and international financecapitalists. Paleoconservativism should include the concept of a state run industrial policy, outlined in Ravi Batra's book, "The Myth of Free Trade" published in 1992, which attacked the policies of Bush1 and Clinton/Democrat Party's embarace of globalization. It should also include the concept of "energy independence"which includes encouraging and subsidizing domestic alternatives to the oil economy. All of these things require a form of central state interventionism, and an activist federal government as regards foreign attempts to dump product, and transfer their own employment domestic agenda to the US economy. Another comment is that the cold war was really a global war of containment with Soviet Communist imperialism and Mao's Communist expansionism. All stripes of conservatives were united by this concern. It does NOT apply to Sent at: 2008 11 20